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Effects for Direct3D 11 (FX11) is a management runtime for authoring HLSL shaders, render state, and runtime variables together.
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Effects for Direct3D 11 (FX11) is a management runtime for authoring HLSL shaders, render state, and runtime variables together.

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# Effects for Direct3D 11 (FX11)



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Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.



**August 14, 2024**



Effects for Direct3D 11 (FX11) is a management runtime for authoring HLSL shaders, render state, and runtime variables together.



This code is designed to build with Visual Studio 2019 (16.11 or later) or Visual Studio 2022. Use of the Windows 10 May 2020 Update SDK ([19041](https://walbourn.github.io/windows-10-may-2020-update-sdk/)) or later is required.



These components are designed to work without requiring any content from the legacy DirectX SDK. For details, see [Where is the DirectX SDK?](https://aka.ms/dxsdk).



*This project is 'archived'. It is still available for use for legacy projects or when using older developer education materials, but use of it for new projects is not recommended.*



## Disclaimer



Effects 11 is being provided as a porting aid for older code that makes use of the Effects 10 (FX10) API or Effects 9 (FX9)

API in the deprecated D3DX9 library. See [Microsoft Docs](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3d11/d3d11-graphics-programming-guide-effects-differences) for a list of differences compared to the Effects 10 (FX10) library.



The Effects 11 library is for use in Win32 desktop applications. FX11 requires the D3DCompiler API be available at runtime

to provide shader reflection functionality, and this API is not deployable for Windows Store apps on Windows 8.0, Windows RT,

or Windows phone 8.0.



The fx_5_0 profile support in the HLSL compiler is deprecated, and does not fully support DirectX 11.1 HLSL features

such as minimum precision types. It is supported in the Windows 8.1 SDK version of the HLSL compiler (FXC.EXE) and

D3DCompile API (46), is supported but generates a deprecation warning with D3DCompile API (47). The fx profiles

are not supported by the DXIL (DXC.EXE) compiler.



## Documentation



Documentation is available on the [GitHub wiki](https://github.com/Microsoft/FX11/wiki).



## Notices



All content and source code for this package are subject to the terms of the [MIT License](https://github.com/microsoft/FX11/blob/main/LICENSE).



## Release Notes



FOR SECURITY ADVISORIES, see [GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/FX11/security/advisories).



For a full change history, see [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/microsoft/FX11/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md).



* The library can be built with Visual C++ or with clang/LLVM for Windows. The code is not conformant enough to support the GNUC (MinGW) compiler.



## Support



For questions, consider using [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/d3dx) with the *d3dx* tag.



## Code of Conduct



This project has adopted the [Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct](https://opensource.microsoft.com/codeofconduct/). For more information see the [Code of Conduct FAQ](https://opensource.microsoft.com/codeofconduct/faq/) or contact [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) with any additional questions or comments.



## Trademarks



This project may contain trademarks or logos for projects, products, or services. Authorized use of Microsoft trademarks or logos is subject to and must follow [Microsoft's Trademark & Brand Guidelines](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/trademarks/usage/general). Use of Microsoft trademarks or logos in modified versions of this project must not cause confusion or imply Microsoft sponsorship. Any use of third-party trademarks or logos are subject to those third-party's policies.



## Credits



The Effects library for Direct3D 9 (FX9) was the work of Loren McQuade with contributions from Relja Markovic.



The Effects library for Direct3D 10 (FX10) was the work of John Rapp and Kutta Srinivasan as a rewrite of the FX9 library with contributions from Anuj Gosalia, Kev Gee, Sam Glassenberg, Relja Markovic, and Ian McIntyre.



The Effects library for Direct3D 11 (FX11) is the work of Ian McIntyre based on FX10 with contributions from Michael Oneppo and Chuck Walbourn.



## Samples



* Direct3D Tutorial 11-14

* BasicHLSLFX11, DynamicShaderLinkageFX11, FixedFuncEMUFX11, InstancingFX11



These are hosted on [GitHub](https://github.com/walbourn/directx-sdk-samples)